Rust Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

About the role

Senior Rust Engineer — AI Data & Distributed Infrastructure. Fully remote, flexible hourly contract, 20–40 hours/week. What You'll Do: - Design, build, and optimize high-performance Rust systems that support AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows. - Develop full-stack backend services and tooling for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control. - Improve reliability, safety, and performance across existing production Rust codebases. - Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation workflows. - Identify and resolve bottlenec…

Requirements

• 3–5+ years of professional experience writing production-grade Rust
• Strong background building distributed services using RPC frameworks and managing distributed state or consensus
• Experienced debugging complex concurrency issues — deadlocks and race conditions — using async instrumentation and tracing tools
• Clear, precise written and verbal communication
• Native or fluent English speaker
• Available and able to commit 20–40 hours per week

What you'll do

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance Rust systems that support AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows
• Develop full-stack backend services and tooling for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control
• Improve reliability, safety, and performance across existing production Rust codebases
• Collaborate with data, research, and engineering teams to support model training and evaluation workflows
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks, edge cases, and systemic issues in distributed data systems
• Participate in synchronous design reviews and iterate on architecture and implementation decisions

Where this was posted

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